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HORACE B. MGCABE, OF MADISON, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR T GISHOLT MACHINE COMPANY, OF MADISON, WISCONSIN, A CORPORATION OF WISCONSIN.

TIME-RECORDING REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patent d J 10 1922 Application filed October 1, 1920. serial No. 414,072.

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, HORACE B. hlOCAnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Madison, in the county of Dane and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Time-Recording Re isters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to recording registers or stamps of that class in which the recording type changes periodically, being electrically actuated and controlled by a master clock having suitable contacts for closing and opening the circuits, and adapted to be used for recording definite periods of time spent by workmen on jobs in manufacturing establishments, as a basis for determining the cost of such labor.

The improvements forming the sub1ectmatter or the present invention have been designed more particularly as improvements in on a time-recording register, successive developments ct which form the subjectxiatter ot certain patentsheretofore granted to me follows: No. 946,858, dated January 18, 1910; No. 1,063,272, dated June 3, 1913; No. 1,104.125, dated July 21, 191 1; No. dated November 17, 191%; No. dated March 2, 1915; and No. dated Eebruary 13, 1917.

- work on cards other than ed for recording regular work, withi 'olving anv ac. ancement of the coun mg mechanism between the close of regular time on one day and the beginning of regir lar time on the next succeeding day, such mechanism being in the nature of an idling 4O mechanism which limits the operation of the counting mechanism to the units and tens wheels; automatically returning the latter to initial positions at the conclusion oi the full overtime period.

In Letters Patent No. 1,117 213, above noted, I have disclosed a mechanism for printing on the regular work cards a charactor or symbol indicating overtime work, that is, work usually pertornied at night or on Sundays or holidays; and in association with such overtime printing mechanism I have also disclosed in the said patent an idling mechanism for limiting the operation of the counting mechanism to the units and tens wheels the purpose of such mechanism being to avoid any interruption in the function of the register to correctly record the periodsof regular work from day to day, While at the same time providing for the recording of maximum or less periods of overtime work.

In the device of my said Patent No.'

1,117,213, I have provided a polarized magnet controlled by a manually operated shift lever for throwing the overtime printing mecha nism and the counter idling mechanism into and out of operation each night and morning while the shop is doing overtime work. My present invention carries this principle a step further by providing an automatic clock-controlled mechanism, which may itself be rendered operative or inoperative by manually set mechanism, by which the overtime printer and the idling mechanism are automatically thrown on between the close of regular working hours and the beginning of overtime working hours (for instance at 6 p. m.), and automatically thrown off ten hours later at the close of the full overtime working period (4 m. in the in stance assumed); so that, if the factory is working overtime for a considerable period, the register can be manually set for overtime printing, and it will then automatically register both overtime work and regular work on the same cards without any interference or confusion in the records, and without requiring the manual operation of a shift-lever each night and morning, I have also, in my present invention, equipped the counter with a day wheel, that is, a wheel bearing numerals from one to thirty-one inelusive indicating the days of the month, and this day wheel is also actuated by the automatic mechanism above referred to.

This automatic mechanism I have herein styled an alternating mechanism for the reason that it is actuated twice every twentyfour hours, preferably at four oclock in the morning and at 6 oclock in the evening, and alternately performs two different sets of functions. l/Vhen actuated in the morning it performs the three-fold function of (1) throwing and locking the overtime printer out of printing position; (2) throwing the counter idling mechanism out of operation; and (3) advancing the day wheel onestep; and when actuated in the evening it performs the three-fold function of (1) releasing the overtime printer and permitting it to move into printing position under the impulse of a spring; (2) throwing the counter idling mechanism into operation; and (3) movingthe actuating pawl of the day wheel into a position to shift the latter at the next actuation of the alternating mechanism. V

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one practical embodiment of the present invention as applied to and embodied in a time register of the class disclosed in my former patents above referred to; and referring thereto; t I

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of'the machine, with some parts omitted for the sake of V clearness, and showing my present'improvements embodied therein;

Fig. 2 is a vertical front to rear section 7 taken substantially on the line 22 of Fig.

1 with some parts omitted, this view also including the box or casing in which the machine is mounted, and'showing the actuating magnet of the alternating mechanism;

Fig. 3 is a vertical front to rear section taken substantially on the line 33 of Fig. 1, and with some parts omitted;

Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken substantially on the line 44 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a vertical section of the counters and counter idling mechanism; 7

Fig. 6 is a top plan view of the day-wheel actuating mechanism;

Fig. 7 is a .detail side elevation of the overtime printing and counter idling devices and the manually operated devices for lock ing said parts in their inoperative positions, the figure showing such inoperative positions;

Fig. 8 is a perspective detail of the hinged yoke member that carries the overtime printing type; and

Fig. 9 is a diagram showing a simple form of automatic clock-controlled make and break mechanism for the circuit of the magnet that actuates the alternating mechanism.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates as an entirety a rectangular box or casing having a removable lid or cover 11. In the lower portion of the box 10 is an electromagnet 12 having an armature l3 pivoted at 14 to a bracket arm 15 and carrying a forwardlyextending arm 16 equipped at its free end with a lateral pin 17. The magnet 12 is in an electric circuit that is controlled by make and break devices hereafter de-.

scribed on a master clock, that operate to close the circuit through the magnet 12, twice in each 24 hours at the beginning and end of a full overtime working period of ten hours as, for instance at .6 p. m. and 4 a. m. The armature lever arm 16 and pin 17 constitute the magnet-actuated means for operating the alternating mechanism hereinafter described.

The register is equipped with a counting mechanism similar to that shown in my prior patents and comprising units, tens, hundreds, and thousands indicating and printing wheels 18, 19, 20, and 21, respectively, Fig. 5, with actuating ratchets 22, i '23, 24, 25 therefor, and a pivoted pawl 26 that is actuated at regular intervals, preferably SIX minutes apart, 1n one direction by a magnet 2r and in the'opposite direction by spring 28, through a circuit controlling .mechamsm on the master clock, and such as is fully shown and described in my former Patent No. 1,104,125, or such as is shown,

in a simpler form, in Fig. 9 hereinafter daywheel 30 and the thousands wheel 21, and

has a rearwardly extending portion 33 carrying at its free end a type 34, such as the symbol X, denoting overtime work. The type symbol 34 lies in the same peripheral plane as the type characters of the several indicating wheels, and is adapted to be shifted, by the rocking of the yoke 32, into and out of printing position. It is normally held in the printing position shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 4 by the tension of a pull spring (Fig. 1) anchored at its lower end to the yoke 32 and at its upper end to a bracket 36 mounted on one of the side frame members of the machine. 7

Referring next to the means for actuating the day wheel 30, 37 designates a fixed shaft on which is pivoted an arm 38 carrying at its free end a weight 39, and just inwardly of the weight a laterallyextending stud 40. On the other side of the arm 38 is a small shaft 41, on the end of which is pivoted a hook-pawl 43, the upper hooked end of which engages with the teeth of the ratchet 31 of the day-wheel 30, being normally urged into engagement with the ratchet by a coil spring 44 (Fig. 6) surrounding the shaft 41.

When the arm 38 is raised to the position shown in Fig. 3, it carries the pawl 43 upwardly into engagement with the next tooth of the day-wheel ratchet, and when the arm 38 drops to the position shown in Fig. 2, the pawl turns the ratchet wheel to the extent of one tooth, thus advancing the day-wheel.

Rigidly mounted on the arm 36 is an upstanding arm 45, by which the day-wheel can be manually set through an opening (not shown) in the cover or lid 11.

Referring next to the counter idling mechanism, 46 designates a rigid vertical frame plate on which is pivoted at 47 an elbow lever one arm 48 of which has a laterally extending foot 49, while the other arm 50 carries a transverse pin 51 that is free to play up and down through an opening 52 in the frame-plate 46.

When the elbow-lever is in the position shown in Fig. 3, the foot 49 is in a position wherein it lies directly below a lateral extension 53 (Fig. 5) on the counter actuating pawl when the latter is at the rear point of its swing where it drops behind the next tooth of one or more of the indicating wheel ratchets; and the position of the foot 49 is such that it will permit the pawl to drop into driving engagement with the ratchets of theunits and tens wheels, but will not permit it to drop low enough to engage the hundreds and thousands wheels; thereby limiting the counting mechanism to the units and tens wheels and not disturbing the position of the hundreds I and thousands wheels. When, however, the elbow-lever is in the position shown in Fig. 2, the foot 49 is swung out of co-operative relation to the pawl and does not affect the operation of the latter.

I will next describe the mechanism intervening between the armature lever 16 and its pin 17 and the driving pawl of the daywheel, the overtime printer, and the counter idling device last described, whereby the daywheel is advanced one step each 24 hours, and the overtime printer and idling mechanism are alternately put into and out of commission at the beginning and end of the full ten hour overtime working period; this mechanism constituting what I have hereinbefore termed an alternating mechanism by reason of the fact that it alternately performs two distinct sets of functions or operations.

Rigidly mounted within the machine is a vertical frame-plate 54. On a fixed stud 55 carried by the frame-plate 54 is a pivoted and suspended from the arm 56 on a stud 57 is a pendant 58, the lower arc-shaped end of which lies directly above the pin or stud 17 of the armature lever arm 16 and is adapted to be raised by the latter.

The range of swing of the pendant 58 is limited by a fixed pin 59 on the arm 56 engaged with a hole 60 in the pendant- 58; and the downward swing of the arm 56 is limited engaged with a guide stud 74, by w 'reciprocations of the bar 72 are maintained by a stop pin 61 on the plate 54. Also pivoted at 62 on the arm 56 is a triangular pawl 63 carrying at its upper end a lateral pin 64 lying within a notch 56 in the upper edge of the .arm 56, and at its lower end a similar lateral pin 65 which is designed simply to prevent the possibility of the pawl 63 swinging to an inverted or partly inverted position.

3n a pivot stud 66 mounted in the frameplate above the arm 56 is a three-arm lever, consisting of two approximately hori- Zontal arms 67 and 68, and a substantially vertical arm 69. The arm 67 carries a lat ral pivot pin i0 extending through a vertical 0 slot T1 in the frame-plate 54, and on this pin '70 is mounted the lower end of an up right bar 72, the upper end of which bar, as best shown in Fig. 4, has a vertical sloU T3 hich the in a substantially vertical line. On the bar 72 are formed three lateral projections or shoulders. The lowermost shoulder 75 lies directly beneath and has a lifting engagement with tl e pin or stud 40 carried by the arm 38 which, it will be remembered, effects the raising of the pawl of the day counter wheel into engagement with the ratchet of the latter. The intermediate shoulder 76 lies within a notch 77 (Figs. 1 and 8) formed in the upper edge of the overtime printeryoke 32, and, on the descent of the bar 72, forces said yoke cownwardly to the inclined position snown in Fig. 2, throwing the overtime printer out of printing position. The uppermost shoulder 78 overlies the lateral pin 51 (Fig. 4) carried by the elbow-lever which forms a it of the counter idling mechanism. From the foregoing it will be e r. that at e ch upward movement of the bar 72 the actuating pawl 43, of the day wheel is raio d to rlring position on its ratchet 31., .19 overtime printer is allowed to move into printing position under the impulse of its spring and the counter idling mechanism is likewise permitted to shift into v-xorlring position under the impulse of coil sprin 79 (Fig. 5) this being the position to of the parts as shown in Fig. while on the downward movement of the bar the actuating pawl of the day-wheel is drawn downwardly by the weight the overtime printer is likewise forced downwardly out of printing position, and the counter it'lling nechanism is thrown into inoperative position, this being the posi ion the a shown in 2. l a

The bar T2 is raised by a weight 80 mounted on a stud Sl carried by the lever arm 66. said stud extending; through an opening in the frame-plate Since the bar TQ remains in its lowered position during the 2 ing hoiirs of the day. means must be arovided for lo. sing it against rising under the gravityimpulse of the weight 80, and for releasing it prior to the begin ning of overtime work. This mechanism comprises the following parts:

83 designates a catch member which is piv On the stud 81 is a disc 88 which lies di rectly above the free endof the arm 56, and

when, with the parts in the relative positions shown in full lines in Fig. 3, the arm 56 is raised, the three-arm lever is rocked on its pivot 66 to the dotted line position shown in Fig. 3, whereupon the catch 83 drops behind the vertical arm 69 of said lever, as shown in Fig. 2, thereby locking the weight in raised position and at the same time locking the bar 72 in lowered position.

011 the next upward movement of the arm 56, the catch 83 isretracted to permit the 'weight 80 to drop and the bar 72 to rise.

This is effected by meansof an elbow-shaped trigger pivoted at 89 on the catch 83, said trigger having a depending arm 90 formed with a shoulder 91 near its lower end, and a weighted lateral arm 92, the lower edge of which restson a stop pin 93 on the catch 83. Vith the parts in the positions shown in Fig. 2, when'the arm 56 next rises, the

pin 64 carried by the pawl 63 strikes the shoulder 91 thereby raising the catch 83 out of engagement with the lever arm 69, and thus permitting the weight 80 to drop and the bar 72 to rise, assuming the positions shown by fulllines in Fig. 3. When this occurs, the trigger arm 90, under the influ ence of the weighted arm 92 swings to the left, carrying the shoulder 91 to one side of the path of movement of the pin 64:. Atthis time the catch 83 is resting on the upper edge of the lever arm 69. This primes the 1113*. chine for registration of overtime work.

At the conclusion of the full overtime pe-' riod of ten hours or one hundred of the six minute intervals at which the units and tens printing wheels are advanced, the magnet 12 is again energized, the arm 56 thrown upwardly, and the three-arm lever is rocked to the dotted line position shown in Fig. 3 which permits the catch 83 to drop back into holding engagement with the three-arm lever and returns the shoulder 91 into the path of the pin 64., said pin having passed by the shoulder on its preceding upward movement due to the fact that the shoulder was shifted to the left out of the pathof the pin. This primes the machine for registration of regular'day work. I

From the foregoing it will be seen that on the up and down movement of the arm 56 which occurs in the morning prior to the sion when and as desired.

in full linesin Fig. 3, the bar 72 is held in raisedposition by the gravity eifect'of the weight 80, supplemented by that of the disc 88.

The register, equipped with the improvement-s thus far described, is capable of registering on the same cards and without any confusion or interference, both regular and overtime work; but since in many factories overtime work isonly an occasional occurrence, I have further equipped the machine with a simple manually operable means by which the overtime register features of the machine may be permanently locked out of commission and brought back into commis- Describing thismanually operated means, which is best shown in Fig. 7 94 designates an elbow-shaped locking arm that is pivoted at 95 to the frame-plate 46, and carries near its upper end a lateral pin 97. The pin v97 lies crosswise of a locking pawl or 'detent 98 that is pivoted at 99 to the frame-plate 46 and has formed in its upper edge two opposed inclines or cams 100 and 101. The opposite arm of the pawl 98 is connected by a tension spring 102 to the corresponding arm of a second detent pawl 103 pivoted at 10tto' the frame-plate 16 and formed on its lower edge with cam inclines 105 and 106. By pushing the pin 97 inwardly, it, rocks the pawl 98 and rides from the cam 100 onto the cam 101, thereby throwing the inner end of the locking arm 94 down onto the pin 51 carried by the arm 50 of the counter idling mechanism, forcing the latter out of commission. On the same pivot 95 is an elbowlever, the vertical arm 107 of which carries a lateral pin 108 that is shiftable between the outer'and inner. cams 105 and 106, as shown in Fig. 7 The other. arm 109 of this lever strikes the top edge of the yoke 32 of the overtime printer and rocks and locks the latter out of printing position. When, therefore, the factory is not working overtime, by

simply shifting the two pins 97 and 108 from their outer totheir inner positions, the overtime features of the machine are manually thrown out of commission. The next time the factory starts on a period of overtime work, the machine is quickly primed to register the latter by simply drawing the pins 97 and 108 rearwardly to their outermost positions shown in Figs. 2 and 3. It should be understood, however, that this manually operated mechanism last described is not a necessary adjunct of the machine, and may be omitted; since no disturbance of, or interference with,.the regular normal functioning of the machine to record regular day working periods can arise from permitting the overtime printing mechanism to function idly when no overtime work is being done.

To energize the auxiliary magnet 12 any approved clock-controlled circuit make and break devices operating at the described intervals may be employed; but in Fig. 9 I have illustrated diagrammatically a simple mechanism for thisjpurpose, in which the battery and a portion of the circuit of the printing magnet 27 may be'utilized in the circuit of the auxiliary magnet 12. Referring to Fig. 9 A designates the center arbor of a clock movement, fast on which is a disc B carrying ten contact pins C spaced thirtysix degrees apart around its periphery. The disc B, of course, makes one revolution each hour. D indicates a battery or other source of current, from one pole of which extends a line wire E connected by an insulated bind ing screw F to aspring contact arm G rest ing on the arbor A. From the other pole of the battery extends a line wire H leading into both of the magnets'lQ and 27. From the magnet 27 extends a line wireI connected to a spring contact arm J, the'free end of which makes and breaks the circuit of the magnet 27 through the contact pins C every six minutes, thus energizing the printing magnet 27.

Mounted on the frame of the clock movement is an overtime controlswheel K which is geared to make one complete revolution each twenty-four hours. On the face of this wheel K are two pins or studs L, L, the former spaced one hundred SlX minute periods, or tenhours, in advance of the latter relatively to the direction of rotation which is clockwise. isa block N of insulating material to which is secured a spring contact arm 0, the free end of which lies opposite, but normally out of contact with, the contact ping C, being drawn away from the latter by a pull spring I. From the spring P extends'a line w1re Q to the auxiliary magnet 12, the rest of the circuit of magnet 12 being comprised by the line wire H, battery D, line wire E, contact arm G, arbor A, disc 13 and contact pins C. Fast on the pivoted block N is a depending arm R having a cam-shaped lower end R that isstruck by pin L at say 6 p. m. to close the circuit of the auxiliary magnet 12 through the arm Oand one of the contact pins C, and again, ten hours later, by the pin L" to again close the same circuit. The ten hour spacing-0t the pins L and L corresponds to ten complete revo-' lutions of the units wheel and one complete revolution of the tens wheel of the counting mechanism; so that when the overtime printing mechanism has been put out of commission by pin L, the units and tens wheels read exactly. the same as they did when the Overtime printing mechanism was Pivoted ona stud M- put into commission by the pin L, and during this ten hour period the hundreds and thousands wheels have been kept stationary by the counter idling mechanism.

It is believed that the nature, purposes and advantages of my present improvements will be readily understood from the foregoing description; and or a fuller understanding of the complete machine reference may be had to my former patents hereinabove identified. To those skilled in the art it will be manifest that the particular mechanism which I have herein illustrated and described for accomplishing the purposes of the invention herein claimed may be considerably modified in detail without involving any departure from the operative principles employed and wi houtsacrificing any of the advantages secured. Hence, I reserve all such variations and modifications as fairlyfell within the scope and purview of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. In a time recording register, the combination with a pluralitvof number indicating and printing wheels, of means, including an electric circuit, a magnet in said circuit, and clock-controlled circuit makeand-break devices, for periodically advancing said wheels, a member carrying a printing type movable into and out of the printing line of said wheels, and means, including an electric circuit, a magnet in said circuit, and other clock-controlled circuit make-and-break devices, for periodically moving said member.

2; In a time recording register, the combination with a plurality of number indicating and printing wheels, of means, in cluding. an electric circuit, a magnetin said circuit, and clock-controlled circuit make and-break devices, for periodically advancing said wheels, an overtime printing member carrying a printing type movable into and out of the printing line of said wheels, means, including a normally open electric circuit and a magnet in said circuit, for moving said overtime printing member, and a clock-driven wheel carrying spaced members operatingto close said normally open circuit at the beginning and at the end of the full overtime working period.

3. In a time recording register, the combination with a plurality of number indicating and printing wheels, of clock-controlled means for periodically advancing said Wheels, an overtime printing member carrying a printing type movable into and out of the printing line of said wheel, means including an electric circuit, a magnet in said circuit, and a pair of spring-separated contacts, for moving said overtime printing member, and a clock-driven twenty-four hour Wheel carrying spaced members operating to close said contact at the beginning and at the end of the full overtime" working period.

said wheels, an overtime printing member carrying a printing type movable into and out of the printing line of said wheels, a shiftable device for idling certain of said wheels, and means,'including an electric circuit, a magnet in said circuit, and other clock-controlled circuit make-and-break de-- vices, for periodically moving said overtime printing member and simultaneously shifting said idling device. 7

5. In a time recording register, the combination with a plurality of number indicating and printing wheels, of means, including an electric circuit, a magnet in said circuit, and

, clock-controlled circuit make-and-breair devices, for periodically advancing said wheels, a pivoted overtime printing member carrying a printing type movable into and out of the printing line of said wheels, a shiftable device for idling certain of said wheels,

means, including a normally open electric circuit and a magnet in said circuit, for swinging said overtime printing member and simultaneously shifting said idling device, and a clock-driven wheel carrying spaced membersoperating to closesaid normally open circuit at the beginning and at the end of the full overtime working period.

6. In a. time recording register, the combination with a plurality of number indicating and printing wheels, of clock-controlled means for periodically advancing said wheels, a pivoted overtime printing member carrying a printing type movable into and out ofthe printing line of said wheels, a shiftable device for-idling certain of said wheels, means, including an electric circuit, a magnet in said circuit,and a pair of springseparated contacts, for swinging said overtime printing member and simultaneously shifting said idling device, and a clockdriven twentyefour hour wheel carrying spaced members operating to close said cor tacts at the beginning and at the end of the full overtime workin period.

7. In a time recording register, the combination witha plurality of number indicating and printing wheels,'an( l'time controlled means for periodically actuating said wheels, of a member carrying a printing type movable into and out of the printingline of said wheels, a spring acting on said member ina manner 'to' shift said type into said printing line, a magnet, and means controlled by said magnet operating, on one impulse of the lat ter to shift'and hold said member out of printing position, and on the" next impulse of said magnetvto release said member and permit it to move to printing position under the action of said spring.

r 8. In a time recording register, the combination with a plurality of number indicating and printing wheels, and time-controlled means for periodically actuating said wheels, of a member carrying a printing type movable into and out of theprinting line of said wheels, shiftable device for idling certain of said wheels, a spring acting on said member in a manner to shift said type into said printing line, a spring urging said idling device into operative position, a magnet, and means actuated by said magnet, operating to alternately actuate and release said member and said idling device, whereby said ty 3e is alternately shifted out of and into said prin ing line and saididling device is also alternately shifted out of and into operative position. V I V 'j 9. In a time recording register, the combination with aprinting cyclometer, and timecontrolled means for periodically actuating the same, of a day printing wheel on the cyclometer axis, a ratchet on said day wheel, an actuating pawl for said ratchet, a magnet, and means successively actuated by said magnet operating upon one actuation there of to move said pawl into engagement with the next tooth of said ratchet and upon the next actuation thereof to cause said pawl through said ratchet to advance said day wheel one step. 7

10. In a time recording register, the combination with a plurality of number indicating an d printing wheels, and timecontrollcd means for periodically actuating said wheels, of a day printing wheel on thesanie aizis with saidnumber indicating and printing wheels, a ratchet on said day wheel, anactuating pawl for said ratchet, a member pivoted on said shaft and carrying a printing type movable into and out of the printing line of said wheels, a spring acting on said member in a manner to shift said type into said printing line, a magnet, and mechanism actuated by said magnetoperating upon one actuation thereof to simultaneously move said member in a direction to shift said type out of'the printing line and advance said day wheel, through said pawl and ratchet,

' one step; and upon the next actuation thereof-to simultaneously release said member and move said pawl into engageinentwith the next tooth of said ratchet. V

11; In a time recording register, the combination with a plurality of number indicating and printing wheels, and'time-controlled means for periodically actuating said wheels, of a day printing wheel on the. same axis with said number indicating and printing wheels, a ratchet on said day wheel, an actuating-pawl for said ratchet, a member pivoted on said shaft, said member carrying a ii's printing type movable into and out of the printing line of said wheels, a shiftable device for idling certain of said wheels, a spring acting on said member in a manner to shift said type into said printing line, a spring urging said idling device into operative position, a magnet, and mechanism. actuated by said magnet operating upon one actuation thereof to simultaneously move said member in a direction to shift said type out of the printing line, advance said day wheel, through said pawl and ratchet, one step, and shift said ling device to inoperative position; and upon the next actuation thereof to simultaneously release said member, move said pawl into engagement with the next tooth of said ratchet, and release said idling device.

12. In a time recording register, the combination of a pivoted member carrying an overtime printing type, a pivoted counter idling device, a spring tending to move said inenibenin a direction to carry said overtime printing type into printing position, a spring urging said counter idling deviceinto operative position, a reciprocating bar operating when moved in one direction to rock said member and idling device against the force of said springs, and when moved in the opposite direction'to release said member and idling device, an electroanag'net, means intermediate the armature of said magnet and said bar for shifting the latter inone direction, a weight for shifting said bar in the opposite direction, and a catch for holding said bar against the shifting action of said weight. g

13. In a time recording register, the combination of a pivoted member carrying an overtime printing type, a spring tending to move said member in a direction to carry said overtime printing type into printing position, a reciprocating bar operatingwhen moved in one direction to rock said member against the action of said spring, and when moved in the opposite direction to release said member, an electro-magnet, means in termediate the armature of said magnet and said bar for shifting the latter in 1a direction to rock said member, a Weight for shifting said bar in the opposite direction to release said member, a catch for holding said bar uga'nst the shifting action of said weight, and a catch releasing device alternately operated and. idle-d by said magnet.

c 14:. In a time recording register, the combination of a pivoted member carrying an overtime printi g type, a spring urging said member in c. rection to carry said overtime printing type into printing position, a pivoted lever, a bar pivoted to one arm of said lever and having a lateral shoulder adapted to str :e and swing said member again t the action of said spring, a weight on the opposite arm of said lever, said weight tending to actuate said bar in a direction to release said member, a magnet, means intermediate the armature of said magnet and said lever for swinging tn latter against the gravity force of said wei it, a catch for holding said lever against the gravity force of said weight, and a catch releasing device alternately operated and idled by said magnet.

15. In a time recording register, the combination with a plurality of number indicating and printing wheels, and time-controlled means periodically actuating said wheels, of a pivoted member carrying a printing type movable into and out of the printing line of said wheels, a spring urging said member to a position wherein said type lies in said printing line, a magnet, mechanism actuated by said magnet operating upon one actuation thereof to swing said member to, and lock it in, a position wherein said type is out of said printing line, and

upon the next actuation thereof to release said member and permit it to swing in" the reverse direction, and manually operate-d means for locking said member out of printing position.

16. In a time recording register, the combination with a plurality of number indi eating and printing wheels, and time-controlled means for ei'odically actuating said wheels, of a pivoted member carrying a printing type movable into and at of the printing line of said wheels, a pivoted de vice for idling certain of said wheels, a spring urging said member to a position wherein said type lies said printing line. a SPIIIEO urging said idling device into op erative position, a magnet, mechanism actuated by said magnet operating upon one actuation thereof to swing said member to, and lock it in, a position wherein said type is out of said printing line and to swing s aid idling device into inoperative position and upon the next actuation thereof to release said member and idling device and permit them to swing in the reverse directi manually operated means for locking said memher out of printing position, and manuallv operated means for locking said idling ddvice in inoperative positionl 17. In a time recording register, the combination with a pluralit of number indiouting and printing wheels, of means, including an electric circuit. a magnet in said circuit, and clock-controlled circuit make and-break devices, for periodically advancmg said wheels, a shiftable device for idling certain of said wheels, and means, including an electric circuit, a magnet in said circuit, and other clock-controlled circuit make-andbreak devices, for periodically shifting said idling device into and out of operative oosition. i L

18, In a timerecording register, the combination With a plurality of number indi-' eating and printing Wheels, of means, includmg an elect-no clrcult, a magnet 1n said oncuit, and clock-controlled clrcult make-andbreak devices, for periodically advancing said wheels, a shiftable device for idling certam of said Wheels during an overtlme Working period, -means,- lncludlng a normally the beginning and at the end of the full 7,

overtime Working period.

HORACE B. MQCABE. 

